Gretchen Carlson suing Roger Ailes for sexual harassment

Wasn't sure whether to put this here or journalism board.
I just heard that Gretchen Carlson was fired by Fox News. ... and is filing a sexual harassment suit against Roger Ailes alleging she was canned because she wouldn't sleep with him.

Roger Ailes has always had this aura of being able to make and break people, which is why I'd guess not a lot of dirty laundry involving him becomes public (because I'd also have assumed he isn't exactly a choirboy in all of his dealings). There has to be a helluva story here, right?

In 2014, Gabriel Sherman, an unauthorized biographer of Ailes, revealed the Chairman’s reputation for sordid sexual behavior. As the New York Times wrote on January 7, 2014 about the book The Loudest Voice In The Room:

“In one anecdote, a television producer, Randi Harrison, told Mr. Sherman that while negotiating her salary with Mr. Ailes at NBC in the 1980s, he offered her an additional $100 each week ‘if you agree to have sex with me whenever I want.'”

A Fox News spokesperson at the time refuted the claims, saying, “These charges are false.”

Can't imagine this sexy stud isn't pulling all the sweet young stuff he can handle.

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Neither can I.

Not saying Ailes may be guilty of this, but the idea a rich and powerful man can't find a young(er), hot(ter) starlet to bang until his heart's content is preposterous. See Sumner Redstone, Salmon Rushdie, the guy banging Courtney Stodden and this ^^^ guy ^^^. Ailes, is probably in the same boat. Only with FoxNews penchant for hiring large breasted blondes, he's probably elbow deep in casting couch offers to break into the big leagues.
I suspect ExMediaHack's explanation is much closer to the truth.